Pramod Upadhyay

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Pramod Upadhyaya is an internationally acclaimed tabla player, composer, and vocalist from Nepal. He studied with his father, the renowned Nepali tabla player Pundit Hom Nath Upadhyaya, and later studied in Bombay, India with the esteemed Ustad Zakir Hussain. He made his tabla soloist debut at the age of five at the Royal Nepal Academy where he performed for late King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal. Over the past three decades, Pramod has toured worldwide both as a soloist and with the band Sukarma, appearing on stages in Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, and India. From 2013 to 2016, Pramod taught tabla performance at the University of California Santa Barbara as a visiting lecturer. He currently lives with his family in Manchester, NH and teaches, records, and regularly tours both locally and internationally.